LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4559, 15 August 1883, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

(Pee s.'s. Tb Axrifar, at the Bluff.) • j l London, July 31. " More detailed' reports' concerning the murder of Carey show that on the arrest of O'Donnell for the murder of Carey his cabi^ was searched, and among the luggage in his possession an infernal machine was "discovered. The wounds on the corpse showed that O'Donnell had fired twice, one shot taking effect in the neck and f,he other one going into the back. After the occurrence Carey lived twenty minutes before death supervened. It has b#n ascertained that the Irish Informers "now on board the Pathan endeavoured to persuade Carej to accompany them, but he refused to go. The. Nihilists have re-commenced their agitation in Russia, and a number of arrests bare been made by the authorities.

August 1. During the week severe shocks of earth* quake have been experienced at Oporto, in Portugal, and also in California. August 3. i An attempt was made to»day t« blow up a linen factory in Cupar, the principal city in Fife, Scotland. The proprietor's attention being directed to. a number of suspicious circumstances, he caused the building to be searched, when a large quantity of dynamite was discovered secreted on the premises.

The Post and Weekly Despatch of August 5 both centain articles severely commenting on the action of the Imperial Parliament in deporting Irish informers to the Australian colonies. They characterise the course adopted, as an insult to the colonies generally, and express their warmest approval of the prompt measures taken by the Australian Governments ;to prevent such characters from landing. Mr Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, refuses to \ state whether the informers cm board the Pathan were despatched by that vesscV with the knowledge and acquiescence o. the Government. The London agents of the Pathan have stated that if any Irish informers were shipped on the vessel, theyi were entirely in ignorance of the identity of the men not .being disclosed.- ':

The estimated average yield of the cereal crops of the United Kingdom, based upon returns so far obtained of the harvest, is twenty busheU per acre. The returns of wheat show a large decrease upon those of last year. The rumour that Mottley, one of the men who gave evidence against Kelly during the" PhrenixPark murder trials, had been assassinated in Philadelphia has beeu officially denied.